Time’s Hillary Clinton cover: Sexist or salutary?

Time’s provocative cover of a giant navy pantsuit leg — meant to symbolize Hillary Clinton — with a tiny businessman clinging to the heel of her black pump, symbolizes Clinton’s political power but also evokes sexual fetishes and suggests powerful women constitute a threat to men, says Amanda Hess in Slate.

GOP benefits from poor’s fear

Economic insecurity might explain why the working poor support Republicans who won’t drive jobs from their communities by demanding better wages and working conditions, says Robert Reich in the Huffington Post.

Barbaric execution violates Constitution

The 22-year-old victim Dennis McGuire raped and murdered in 1989 undoubtedly suffered far more than her killer, who was executed by Ohio authorities using a new cocktail of drugs that cruelly prolonged his death, says Rick Moran in American Thinker. “The issue isn’t whether the state treated McGuire more humanely than the killer treated his victim,” but rather the state’s failure “to carry out the sentence in accordance with state and federal constitutions,” he says.

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I haven’t had a chance to read the article yet, but it’s certainly not my favorite depiction. It would be fantastic to have a Clinton/Kucinich, Clinton/Sanders or Clinton/Sharpton team in a couple of years.